Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...politically. Albania even broke relations with the Soviet Union in 1961 and China in 1978 after those powers experimented with early liberalization programs. Since he succeeded the late dictator Enver Hohxa in 1985, President Ramiz Alia, 65, has only gradually modified the most egregious of his predecessor's restrictive policies...
...Council of Churches had originally planned to kill off its 1952 version once the new rendition was out, but has decided to keep it available for at least five more years because of popular demand. For good reason: the new text reads best when it sticks closest to its predecessor...
Garrett's dismissal followed months of hallway rumors, infighting, standoffs, bluffs and clashes between the fiercely independent editor and his predecessor, Gilbert Grosvenor, now president and chairman of the National Geographic Society. Scion of the founding family, Grosvenor follows in the footsteps of his great-grandfather, Alexander Graham Bell, in running the world's largest nonprofit scientific and educational institution...
...exclusive salvage rights in federal court last year through the arcane principle of "tele-possession" because its unmanned robot, equipped with cameras and mechanical arms, can operate in waters too deep for divers. But ten British and American insurance companies insist that the loot is theirs since their predecessor companies paid off the loss more than a century ago. Even the Ivy League has joined the fray. Columbia University, whose researchers provided sonar maps of the ocean bottom, is also angling for a share...
...Committee was first convened by Spence's predecessor as dean, Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky, who said he set it up as a "sounding board...